Alon Dogon, M.S.

Alon Dogon is going to be a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University, under the mentorship of Henry Yuen. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in pure mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Alex Lubotzky and Uri Bader, supported by a Clore Scholars Fellowship. Previously, he obtained his B.S. and M.S. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dogon’s research focuses on group theory and its interactions with operator algebras and dynamics, including their applications to theoretical computer science and quantum information. During his Ph.D., he studied the emerging field of stability in group theory and established connections to finitary approximations of groups and rigidity theory of higher-rank lattices. In a recent joint work, he demonstrated that non-uniform higher-rank lattices are character rigid.